Daniel Mahla, Orthodox Judaism and the Politics of Religion. From Prewar Europe to the State of Israel. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 311 (3) ◽  
pp. 831-832
Author(s):  
Björn Siegel
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Orthodox Judaism ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Politics Of Religion ◽  
State Of Israel

Book Reviews

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-173
Author(s):  
Elia Etkin ◽  
Tal Elmaliach ◽  
Motti Inbari
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Orthodox Judaism ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Social Agenda ◽  
Politics Of Religion ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Radical Left

Laura Wharton, Is the Party Over? How Israel Lost Its Social Agenda (Jerusalem: Yad Levi Eshkol, 2019), 432 pp. Paperback, $29.95.Fiona Wright, The Israeli Radical Left: An Ethics of Complicity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), 208 pp. Hardback, $69.95.Daniel Mahla, Orthodox Judaism and the Politics of Religion: From Prewar Europe to the State of Israel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 318 pp. Hardback, $99.99.

The Western Wall

2020 ◽  
pp. 91-124
Author(s):  
Yuval Jobani ◽  
Nahshon Perez
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Orthodox Judaism ◽  
Policy Tools ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
Preference Model ◽  
The Third ◽  
State Preference ◽  
State Relations ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Western Wall

Chapter 4 examines the state preference model of religion–state relations at contested sacred sites. Section A explores the case of the Women of the Wall as a case in which the state of Israel adopts the preference model—favoring ultra-Orthodox Judaism—in managing the contestation over prayer arrangements at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Section B explores the general religion-majoritarian approach which serves as the framework for the model of state preference at contested sites. Section C presents the specific techniques and policy tools, as well as the advantages and main weaknesses, of the third model of governing contested sacred sites examined in the current study: the model of “preference.” The last section (D) presents several arguments for the undesirability of state support for religion from the perspective of religious interests, emphasizing the applicability of this undesirability to the category of contested sacred sites.

B'nai B'rith on the European continent after World War Two

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-126
Author(s):  
Hans Levy
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
Jewish Organization ◽  
World War Two ◽  
World War ◽  
European Continent ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Second World

The focus of this paper is on the oldest international Jewish organization founded in 1843, B’nai B’rith. The paper presents a chronicle of B’nai B’rith in Continental Europe after the Second World War and the history of the organization in Scandinavia. In the 1970's the Order of B'nai B'rith became B'nai B'rith international. B'nai B'rith worked for Jewish unity and was supportive of the state of Israel.

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